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The Department of Traditional Affairs (DTA) is a department of the South African government, responsible for overseeing the traditional leadership of South Africa's indigenous communities. Along with the Department of Cooperative Governance , it is within the political responsibility of the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional ...
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (formerly the Department of Provincial and Local Government) was a ministry of the South African government, responsible for the relationship between the national government and the provincial governments and municipalities, and for overseeing the traditional leadership of South Africa's indigenous communities.
The office was called the minister of provincial and local government from June 1999 until May 2009, when the minister assumed responsibility for traditional leadership institutions. [2] Before June 1999, the office was the minister of constitutional development and provincial affairs .
The executive branch of the national government of South Africa is divided into the cabinet and the civil service, as in the Westminster system. Public administration, the day-to-day implementation of legislation and policy, is managed by government departments (including state agencies with department status), which are usually headed by permanent civil servants with the title of director ...
The Bantu Authorities Act, 1951 (Act No. 68 of 1951; subsequently renamed the Black Authorities Act, 1951) was to give authority to Traditional Tribal Leader within their traditional tribal homelands in South Africa. It also gave the government extensive powers to proclaim these chiefs and councillors, despite the backlash it may receive.
The government created the NRC as a platform for educated Africans to express their political desires, granting them official recognition as leaders of the black community in South Africa. [28] According to Smuts, Hertzog intended for the Council to serve as an outlet for the expression of African views and to steer both public and ...
This ordinance stipulated that the reserve land, which the black population in the Natives Land Act, 1913 had been allocated to 7.13% (9,709,586 acres (3,929,330 ha)) of the total land, be enlarged to approximately 13.6% of the total area of then South Africa. This value was not reached and remained so unfulfilled until the 1980s.
Parliament of South Africa: Royal assent: 30 June 1927: Commenced: 1 September 1927: Repealed: 12 April 2006, 30 September 2007, and various other dates: Administered by: Minister of Native Affairs: Repealed by; Repeal of the Black Administration Act and Amendment of Certain Laws Act, 2005: Related legislation; Native Affairs Act, 1920 Bantu ...